For over 10 years XVIVO an industry leader, has captivated audiences with engaging visual productions. Please take a tour of their work to see selected samples of our animations, interactive and illustration at http://www.xvivo.net/.
Their patient education material is state of the art, using 3D visualization and animation programs that show mechanisms of action and mechanism of disease.

XVIVO has created 3D visualization and animation for major pharmaceuticals, universities, and museums including Novartis, Shire, Harvard, the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, and The National Institutes of Health. They have also created visualizations for other leading corporations, all of whom are visionaries in science and medicine striving to develop sophisticated and detailed medical animations, illustrations, and interactive productions.

You will not find a more passionate team when it comes to scientific accuracy and visual excellence. XVIVO Scientific Animation translates complex science into compelling medical media.

SciCo is a Non Profit Organisation whose aim is to communicate scientific issues to the public via innovative and entertaining means. SciCo was founded with the support of the British Council in 2008 and it consist of scientists, academics, educators, artists and people with an interest in everyday science. SciCo operates as a social enterprise, undertaking corporate social responsibility initiatives for multinational companies. More →

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The Ebola virus and it’s close relative the Marburg virus are members of the Filoviridae family. These viruses are the causative agents of severe hemorrhagic fever, a disease with a fatality rate of up to 90% [12]. The Ebola virus infects mainly the capillary endothelium and several types of immune cells. The symptoms of Ebola infection include maculopapular rash, petechiae, purpura, ecchymoses, dehydration and hematomas [13].

Since Ebola was first described in 1976, there have been several epidemics of this disease. Hundreds of people have died because of Ebola infections, mainly in Zaire, Sudan, Congo and Uganda [14]. In addition, several fatalities have occurred because of accidents in laboratories working with the virus [15]. Currently, a number of scientists claim that terrorists may use Ebola as a biological weapon [14, 16].

In the 3D model presented in this study, Ebola-encoded structures are shown in maroon, and structures from human cells are shown in grey. The Ebola model is based on X-ray analysis, NMR spectroscopy, and general virology data published in the last two decades. Some protein structures were predicted using computational biology techniques, such as molecular modeling.

As the largest collaborative of its kind, the Harvard Stem Cell Institute is a unique scientific enterprise — a community of scientists and clinical experts in stem cell science seeking to bring new treatments to the clinic and new life to patients with a wide range of chronic illnesses.
To pursue the promise of stem cell and regenerative biology, in 2004, Harvard created a novel academic home for researchers and students, and a network of stem cell scientists extending from the University to its affiliated hospitals and the biomedical industry. Leveraging this unique environment, Harvard’s program has helped to change the paradigm for biomedical research and education by emphasizing cooperative teams and student participation in cutting-edge science.

The Harvard community consists of the largest concentration of biomedical researchers in the world, which allows us to advance stem cell biology and translational medicine in a way no other single entity can. Stem cell biologists across all the departments, schools, institutes, and affiliated hospitals of Harvard are able to collaborate on a daily basis with scientist-physicians, chemists, bioengineers, experts in business, law, and ethics, in order to develop tomorrow’s treatments and cures today.

Funding for US Study Online is an extensive database of scholarships, fellowships and grants organized and maintained by the Institute of International Education (IIE). Funding for US Study includes all types of funding programs, for all levels of post-secondary study, across the full range of academic areas.

Deadlines and due dates are sources of stress for almost everyone on the planet, and this stress is only made worse when there’s money on the line. You’re busy enough during the school year, and successfully applying for scholarships and meeting scholarship application deadlines can seem an impossible task. However, with the right strategy, you can stay on track and easily meet scholarship application deadlines.

Start Early

Search for available scholarships around the beginning of your senior year of high school, if not sooner. If you’re already in college and looking for scholarships for the next academic year, you will still want to kick things off in the early fall. Most scholarship application deadlines fall between October and March, a time when students tend to have the most on their plates academically. New scholarship information might not be posted for every award when you search, but you will get a good idea of which scholarship opportunities you will want to pursue, as well as when their application deadlines are. Even if this year’s contest information is not yet available, scholarship application deadlines tend to fall around the same time each year and the application requirements also tend to be similar from year-to-year. For example, a scholarship essay contest might change prompts from year to year, but the scholarship provider is unlikely to significantly alter requirements for word counts or supporting materials.

Make a Plan

Figure out which scholarship awards you plan to apply for and around when the contests close. Check those deadlines against other deadlines you need to meet (tests, major assignments, academic or athletic competitions, etc.) then form a plan for how to get everything done. If you realize that you have three final tests the same week that all of your scholarship applications are due then you know that you’ll need to be writing scholarship essays well in advance of the deadlines.

Once you have a plan, you’ll know which scholarship applications you need to work on at which points in the year, and you’ll also have time to gather supporting materials. Do you need three letters of recommendation by December 1? Will you need to submit 8 copies of your high school transcripts at various points in February? Does a scholarship you’re applying for in March require a copy of your great-grandpa’s discharge papers from World War I? The sooner you know these things, the sooner you can find them. Helping your mom figure out where great-grandpa’s war memorabilia could actually be fun if you don’t have to get it to the copy shop and the post office before 5 PM that day.

Know Yourself

Perhaps the best advice for meeting scholarship application deadlines is to be honest with yourself about what you’re likely to finish and how long it’s likely to take you. If you know that you’re not going to be able to write a scholarship-worthy essay in less than a day, then you know to either give yourself more time to prepare a particular scholarship application or to cross that essay scholarship off your list of potential sources of scholarship money. The key to effectively meeting scholarship application deadlines and winning scholarships is to effectively prioritize your scholarship opportunities and application efforts. Don’t strain yourself, don’t procrastinate, and don’t force yourself into a situation where you must submit sub par work. Give yourself time, get organized, and prepare as much as possible beforehand, and you will be on your way to creating success in your scholarship search.

Academic research is the heart of any masters or PhD program. While graduate level students must still take courses, the bulk of their work is focused on doing original research and writing a compelling paper that they will then have to defend in front of a panel of professors or others with expertise in the field. While in-depth research was once confined to reference libraries and organizations with access to years’ worth of copies of academic journals, much of the work of original research can now be done online. Major repositories of academic research like JSTOR and LexisNexis can now be searched comprehensively online, and even Google has an easy-to-use scholarly search engine. Online libraries, journals, databases, and academic search engines are a great resource for graduate students and PhD students, as well as people at any level of education who are working on in-depth research.

The subject matter contained in these sites covers many academic disciplines, but it would be impossible to cover all of them in one list. Fortunately there are specialized academic databases and search engines for nearly any topic imaginable. This isn’t a ranked list, but a sample of many of the highest quality online resources for academic research.

Academic Search Engines

Academic search engines like the ones offered by Google, Microsoft, and many academic publishing companies, don’t necessarily offer full access to published papers, but they are a great way to do preliminary research and find out what type of investigation has already been done in any academic sphere.

JSTOR is a subscription based academic search engine that allows users access to scholarly journals, articles, primary sources and even books. They have thousands of sources available in over a dozen categories like science, humanities, law and business.

Elsevier is a leading publisher of health science books and journals. They offer journal subscriptions to medical practitioners and have resources in topics such as dentistry, psychiatry, and even veterinary medicine.

Wikipedia is a user edited encyclopedia about topics from pop culture to history to television to molecular science. Free to anyone, users can flag any incorrect information and update and add new information and sources. Though it won’t serve as an actual citation in an academic paper, it is a great resource for getting a broad overview and picking a direction for further inquiry on any topic

SCIRUS is possibly the most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web, with over 575 million scientific items indexed at last count. This search tool allows researchers to search for not only journal content, but also scientists’ homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.

The Anthropology Review Database is an easy to use search engine for those looking for anthropology publications. Users can find reviews of recent books, films, and even software and websites here, to discover titles that are relevant to their interests and worth including in their research or teaching.

MathSciNet is an electronic publication offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. This database contains over 2.8 million items and over 1.6 million direct links to original articles, and over 100,000 new items are added each year.

ipl2 is a public service and learning/teaching environment where students and volunteer library and information science professionals answer reference questions and maintain and build reference collections. Collections of resources from the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians’ Internet Index (LII) websites were merged in 2010 to form this resource.

Researchers can discover the articles they need through the ERIC search. You can search for peer-reviewed articles only, or articles that have full text instead of an abstract. You also can look for both types of articles in this multidisciplinary database.

United Academics’ goal is to connect science and society by providing a venue where academics can publish their research, where the author decides on copyright and incentive, and where the peer review becomes a test of quality rather than a barrier to publication. This site also offers a place where companies, institutes and academics can collaborate to generate new, exciting, and productive works.

Register to use this free search engine and you’ll end up with some amazing extra tools such as the ability to store references and to share references with peers. You also can store and search your PDFs, and make new discoveries through automated article recommendations.

Microsoft Academic Search is a database filled with papers on topics that range from agricultural science to social science. Primarily a scientific database, researchers can cull information through publications, journals, organizations, and keyword searches.

Virtual Academic Resource Center is an academic search engine that provides free access to materials from the fields of psychology, philosophy, sociology, and educational services. Users can search (and submit) books, journals, and articles for use in research.

If you’re looking for a search engine dedicated to academic open access web resources, BASE is what you need. Operated by Bielefeld University Library, BASE collects, normalizes, and indexes data, providing more than 50 million documents from more than 2,700 sources.

This site is a global science gateway, which allows researchers to accelerate their scientific discovery with national and international scientific databases and portals. Multilingual WorldWideScience.org provides real-time searching and translation of globally-dispersed scientific literature.

This academic search engine currently is in public beta, but don’t let that stop you from searching through more than one billion documents for the information you may need for your research. Lose that information overload found through regular search engines and hone in on your topic with this tool.

If you need a tool to find a federal publication, this search engine might help. The catalogue for this finding tool offers the option to find a nearby Federal Depository Library that has a particular publication as well. Search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general key word, or click on “Advanced Search” for more options.

If you’re searching for psychology and social science journals or articles, use Psycline to find what you need. This database contains over 2,000 psychology and social science journals with an easy-to-use interface to article databases.

This search engine is dedicated to scientific searches, and users can make search-queries in different databases by using only 1 search field. This resource allows users to find, download, or buy scientific publications in up to 60 different databases.

Based upon the Google Custom Search engine, this search tool allows users to search contents of the repositories listed in the OpenDOAR database and use the information freely for academic research. Full texts are available for most results.

VADLO provides a powerful search tool dedicated to the life sciences. Search for forums, cartoons, protocols, tools, PowerPoint presentations, and products, all geared to support any life science project. The PowerPoint presentations include biomedical and medical research.

The Encyclopedia of Psychology offers a variety of options for support materials within their 1,726 links. Choose from the history of psychology, publications, resources, organizations, paradigms and theories, and even career options. The site can be translated into eight languages other than English.